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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY AUGUST 20, 2007
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978)
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Edgar Bergen and his puppet Charlie McCarthy performed on the radio for twenty years before retiring as one of the last great radio acts.
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Spotlight on Organizations
BY RACHEL BURTON
Long before Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Environs, an environmental group at the University of Kansas, began spreading the word about the negative effects global climate change could have on the earth.
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"Everyone is recognizing the global climate change now, and people from students to business leaders
Environs
are becoming aware of these issues and recognizing the need to take action." said Brian Sifton, president of Environs.
It seems that global climate change and other environmental issues are on everyone's mind these days. It's a topic that has become hard to avoid with almost every media outlet telling us how we can be more "green."
Environs has been focused on these issues for the last 22 years. The group was founded in 1985 by environmental studies students as a way for environmental studies majors to connect and do research with their peers.
However after the creators of Environs found that many students in other disciplines were interested in environmental advocacy. Environs was soon open to everyone.
Environs has accomplished a lot since the group was created. In 1988, they started a recycling program on campus. Students worked with facility operations to put bins in several buildings on campus, and student volunteers collected the recycled materials one to two times a week.
The program was so successful, that after one semester, the University took over management of the program, although it remains student funded.
Last year, when the office of the
provost was deciding whether or not to build a center for sustainability on campus, Environs took action and gathered 1500 student signatures in only a few days time, proving that the center was something that students really wanted, and convinced the provost to build the center.
This year Enviros has already planned several social activities. Some possible upcoming events include camping trips, potluck dinners, and a Mexican food night.
Environs meets twice a month on Mondays. The first meeting of the fall semester is today at 6PM in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
For more information on Environs, email Brian Sifton at bsifton@ku.edu or Ashton Martin at ksclimber@gmail.com.
SALUTE
57-year-old to skydive in honor of her son's service
THOMAS TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Tina Peters wanted to do something special as a salute to her son's service to his country as he heads back to Iraq for a second tour, so she's going to jump out of an airplane.
The thing is, the 57-year-old woman has never done that before.
His older brother, Ray Peters, 32, plans to skydive with their mother Sunday in a "Jumping for Jason" event at Browne Airport in Saginaw County.
"My mom's crazy," said Air Force Staff Sgt. Jason Peters, 31. "I'll be sitting back with the insurance agent, watching."
Tina Peters said she wasn't nervous about the jump.
Air guitarist Ryan "Stryker" Strecker competes in the US Air Guitar National Finals at The Fillmore Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007 in New York. Andrew "William Ocean" Litz went on to win and will represent the United States at the Air Guitar World Championship in Olou, Finland in September.
"One of us will scream like a little girl, and it's not gonna be me," she told The Saginaw News.
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Jason Peters, like his mother, has never jumped out of a plane, but unlike her he has no plans to do so.
Jason Peters, a member of the 75th Logistics Readiness Squadron, is scheduled to be deployed next week for about 10 months.
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"I'm not looking forward to going back, but I'm not crazy enough to jump out of a plane," he said.
ACCIDENT
Elderly woman becomes trapped inside bank
LAGUNA WOODS, Calif.
— A 73-year-old woman became trapped in a bank when employees accidentally locked her in the building while she was looking over the contents of a safe deposit box.
Marian Prescher, who has diabetes, apparently passed out during the ordeal because she had not taken her medication with her. A cleaning person discovered her six hours later.
Prescher visited the Bank of
America branch Wednesday and was given use of a privacy room to examine her valuables. Employees left her in the room when they closed the bank at about 6 p.m.
"They forgot she was there," sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said.
Bank of America said it was investigating.
Prescher said she knew nothing about what happened until she awoke at the hospital where she was treated and released.
Shortly after midnight, deputies received a call from a cleaning person who discovered the woman. Prescher was unconscious and cold to the touch when authorities arrived.
"She may have died." Amormino said. "It just seems to be a terrible oversight."
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"I just couldn't believe it, that they would leave me in there," she said.
Danny Marfaite will present the physics and astronomy department colloquium lecture "Physics of Massive Neutrinos" at 4 p.m. in 2074 Malott Hall.
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DOLE CENTER Chancellor names temporary director
In a press release Friday, Chancellor Robert Hemeway announced that Jonathan Earle, associate professor of history, as the new interim director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. Earle took the place of Bill Lacy, who took a leave of absence to direct former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson's exploratory presidential campaign committee.
Earle joined the Dole Institute in 2003 as the associate director of academic programming. He organized events and academic programs that got University students interested in politics. Earle was very involved in the organization of the Dole Lecture by former President Bill Clinton in 2004.
"In Jonathan, the Dole Institute is in exceptionally capable hands?" Hemenway said in the press release. "As a scholar and an award winning teacher, Jonathan has taken his classroom expertise to create engaging and entertaining programs at the institute.
Earle is an associate professor of history, and served as a visiting chair in U.S. history at Occidental Collegue in Los Angeles last year. He authored several books and was named one of eight top young historians by the History News Network. Earle has won numerous awards including, the 2005 Broussard prize by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, co-winner of the 2005 Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize for best book authored by a Kansan, and W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching in 2003.
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